“Hwuuu…”

 

The distant sound of someone sobbing echoed familiarly.

 

Was a banshee crying again?

 

The voices that sounded were quite a bit different from one, though.

 

“Hwuuuuu…”

 

“You can stop.”

 

Oh, was it just a dream?

 

A dark room slowly became clearer. I’d seen this room before.

 

As the darkness surrounding me gradually ebbed away, I saw a woman crying, standing in front of a balcony and rubbing the heel of her palm against her chest. A man was moving closer to her.

 

I couldn’t see their faces, but a strange sense of familiarity washed over me. The thought of having met this couple somewhere else passed me by.

 

Oh, that’s right. I had had a dream like this once before.

 

Yes, in another place, at another time, that woman had been smiling wickedly, and that man…

 

“Isn’t it time you stopped with the bad acting?”

 

The woman quit her wailing. “What if I don’t want to?”

 

“Ah, you’re really driving me crazy.”

 

“As expected, it doesn’t work on you,” I couldn’t see it, but I could feel the woman sneering. “You’re so annoying, you know that, right?”

 

The sadness ailing her vanished in an instant, something menacing gracing her features instead. I still couldn’t see what she looked like, but I felt the aggression dripping from her echoing and settling in my bones.

 

The man looming over her seemed to be very angry. “You turned the court banquet into a damn circus show. Have you no shame?”

 

“That girl was asking for it. What did you want me to do?”

 

“Did you fight with her just cause she asked you a question? Why don’t you pick a fight with the entire world then?”

 

“You weren’t even there, so what do you know? Right, it must’ve been your little sister that told you. Of course, she must have chosen her side again. She always does.”

 

The woman gave a bitter laugh, the air turning sullen.

 

“Watch your mouth.”

 

“Oh, don’t deny it, you know it’s true. And what if I don’t watch my mouth? Will you hit me? Don’t even joke around, because we both know you won’t.”

 

I was starting to worry a little for the woman.

 

She was deliberately targeting her opponent’s weak spots, his rage already reaching its breaking point. The harsh breaths he took was the only sound that could be heard in this dark and empty room.

 

“You’re such a bad f**king girl.”

 

“And you’re so handsome,” she swooned, ridicule but also honesty honeying her sweet voice.

 

“Consider it an honor then, if you’re willing to admit it.”

 

“Hah! An honor? You?”

 

“Anything you’re dissatisfied with? Tell me, since I’m your so-called husband.”

 

“I’m dissatisfied with your existence itself.”

 

your existence, you wicked

 

The mood was strange.

 

but they couldn’t take their eyes off one another

 

would turn around any minute now, storming out of the door if not taking swings at each other before that. Instead, it was the distance between them that was dwindling, something I couldn’t

 

chest to chest

 

appearance you’re at

 

mean anything. There are a hell of a lot more attractive men much better-looking than you in

 

then? Hurry up and go back

 

“You’re a damn j*rk.”

 

resemble each other, right?” The man came closer, as if there

 

participate

 

“Hell no!”

 

“Then I won’t either!”

 

man’s hair and dug her nails into the back of his

 

man was twice her

 

I was, who these people were, and why I was here, as I took in the scene of the man and woman’s passionate

 

of heavy breaths and desperate kissing filled the dark chamber. The only source of light came from the moon raining down on the couple clutching each other tightly and hungrily devouring one

 

macabre. Sad and hopeless and

 

woman’s eyes

 

have seen me. I was only a ghost in this dream, after

 

that woman smiled at

 

in my chest broke and smashed into pieces. The face I

 

The woman was me.

 

that’s you…

 

Then, that man is…

 

sense of it, but it was as if someone had turned me to stone. I couldn’t move. I couldn’t

 

waned, and the room plunged into darkness. The man and the woman vanished and I lost myself to the

 

***

 

my eyes had me

 

to lift my hand, but it dropped down to the bed I was lying

 

Who got me here? What

 

woke up, I turned my

 

I wanted to cry.

 

lying next to me, looking like he hadn’t

 

taking him in, my eyes leaving no part of his face

 

He looked miserable, though.

 

movement taking everything out of me, but my want was greater

 

hoarse, almost a whisper in the soft breeze. “Why didn’t you

 

thinking of anything. It felt like it

 

previous life and everything I had done in this life, all of it

 

stranger in my

 

like him, the voice I answered him with was low and hoarse as well, a whisper

 

“What…?”

 

All I was, was an illusion.

 

well, something that had revealed

 

had wanted me to be. When my brother had had enough of my sniveling and groveling and breaking down, when I wasn’t the perfect sister, always composed and worthy of the family name like he had expected

 

always been like

 

“Always.”

 

his jaw and his lips curled into a mean snarl. I knew it wasn’t me he was directing it at. “Were all the people around you blind

 

mean… I’m already in a situation where I’m hated without doing

 

eye with my numb finger, gently at first until I pressed hard on the bone of

 

on gazing at me with that same

 

other arm was free, he could embrace me fully, enveloping

 

own arm around his wide torso and burying my head in the juncture where his shoulder and neck met, breathing

 

why my head felt

 

but I didn’t remember

 

like that. Because it’s not your fault. It’s not always all

 

suffering-from-main-character-disease arrogant

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